--- title: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Epic Meal Time Make Giant Sandwich on a Tank description: Bacon, beef, two baking-sheet-sized buns and ostrich eggs cooked on a tank? It's a sandwich fit for the Terminator canonical: https://time.com/12998/chef-arnold-schwarzenegger-makes-an-epic-sandwich/ author: Eric Dodds article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-05T20:00:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:54:59.242Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Epic Meal Time Make Giant Sandwich on a Tank og:description: Bacon, beef, two baking-sheet-sized buns and ostrich eggs cooked on a tank? 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It's a sandwich fit for the Terminator twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt202c9a2c9dfe8fb1/698683fa3bc999f85f1a22b7/1280tout.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chef Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes an Epic Sandwich by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Mar 5, 2014 8:00 PM CUT  Epic Meal Time Paired up With the Terminator to make a wicked Sandwhich. Epic Meal Time Paired up With the Terminator to make a wicked Sandwhich. by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Mar 5, 2014 8:00 PM CUT Perhaps you’ve heard of _Epic Meal Time_, the YouTube-based Canadian cooking show that blew up in 2011 featuring impressively high-calorie meals — often comprising a handful of meats, vats of sauce and several pigs’ worth of bacon. If ever there were a movie star capable of matching those gargantuan portions in human form, that star would _definitely_ be _Terminator_‘s Arnold Schwarzenegger. The two-term California [governor met with the Epic Meal Time gang](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg4rylxSg5c "undefined") to create the aptly named “Steak & Egger Sandwich,” and even fried an enormous ostrich egg directly on his own M47 Patton tank. The _Commando_ star also gamely re-appropriated a few of his memorable one-liners for the segment, including, most notably: “Remember when I said I didn’t bring the buns? [I lied](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8JFVSNxkEI "undefined").” (via [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg4rylxSg5c "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/12998/chef-arnold-schwarzenegger-makes-an-epic-sandwich/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/12998/chef-arnold-schwarzenegger-makes-an-epic-sandwich/"},"headline":"Chef Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes an Epic Sandwich","datePublished":"2014-03-05T20:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:54:59.242Z","description":"Bacon, beef, two baking-sheet-sized buns and ostrich eggs cooked on a tank? 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